i'm thinking of getting one. either y580 or y500. which one is a better buy?
580 has a 660M, but i heard that 500 has better cooling system?

wanna game with this laptop. mostly wanna connect to my 1080p HDTV.
thanks

U typo error from ur first post until now...
It's GT650M SLi and GTX 660M
Well if u wanna play it more smoothly, set ur setting to 1366x768/1600x900

its 660m.... anyway, it depends actually... since some games got problem with SLI config....

1080p is 1920x1080.....
well in gaming it just screen getting bigger since got more pixel....

no... nowadays got 15 inch FHD screen.... HD screen is soo yesterday

well, for me, it is a bit warm when playing games, but i don't think it that severe in my opinion

fps for which game??
definitely not normal... can you share screenshot showing that ssd temp is high?

I've never benchmark AC3 because somehow Razer GameBooster has problem with the way this game running... but I'm pretty sure it's beyond 30fps, though I think I played at 1600x900 and medium settings (can't exactly remember, haven't been on the game for quite some time already)

FarCry 3 and Crysis 2, I've never tried but I would expect no problem for Crysis 2 reaching 60fps though might not be at high settings.

I'm using Y580 btw (GTX660M)

If international warranty then should be okay but for the warranty extension I don't think you cannot do it locally. Alternatively, you can extend the warranty online via the Lenovo US webpage...
1. Correct.
2. Correct. As the port for the original HDD is SATA3, you need to put your SSD there so that you can utilize the max performance, while moving your HDD to the ODD which is only SATA2 but it's more than enough to sustain the performance of an ordinary HDD.
3. Normally yes for Malaysian market pricing, but you can get equal value of mSATA unit for the equal capacity of a 2.5" SSD at Newegg. But do note that the mSATA for Y580 is only supported until SATA2 speed so this might be a bottleneck for the new SATA3 mSATA model.
4. Yes, just go Google and you can come up with a lot of stuff for that.

2. Correct
3. Yup... beware of bottleneck.
4.Nope, actually i haven't own this model yet, ordered but not yet...
Logically, as you said it's already warm under normal operation, for sure it will be even warmer if you OCed it. As for how high will the temperature shoots, you have to go Google or ask around see if any of the owners here did actually OCed their unit... I believe without OC i read highest temperature for GPU is around 90?
Yeah, heard that even the disty facing low on supply... and so I end up buying an Intel 520 240GB...

I dont think much can be done about the heat... If you're really uncomfortable about the heat at palm rest just because you don't like warmed up hand, I would suggest external keyboards... if you're worried it will damage your hardware as time goes, I think nothing to worry much....

u can chagn de hdd to odd to prevent de hdd to get hot wen playing games, for de cpu n cpu, i think all u can do is add a cooling pad or a fan

i think its hot even without gaming because of the i7(not sure though) becuz from i know, an i7 is quite warm even on idle,
my y580 temp is cpu=52 gpu=44 hdd=50 on normal usage
i think my hdd is quite hot and i thinking to change it to odd

well.... originally y480/580 were branded officially by lenovo as multimedia laptop, not gaming..... it is us actually who called that way etc just bcos of the specs.....